Road Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that contacts worth Rs 5 lakh crore signed for infrastructure, roads, ports. He also said that the government’s road and highway building programme has sufficient amount of cash available for development of infrastructure. He added that it is a significant contribution from their investors and they are receiving good response for the public-private partnership, build-operate-transfer and hybrid annuity (models).
Gadkari also said that, as per the Budget 2017-18, the AAA-rated National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been permitted to raise Rs 70,000 crore through infrastructure bonds. He said ‘my toll income is Rs 10,000 crore per year. So, I can monetize for 15 years and I get Rs 2 lakh crore. There are 101 projects which are ready with where I am going to monetise and I will get Rs 1.25 lakh crore. So, money is not the problem'. For the port sector, he said that they are getting Rs 3000 crore in dollar loans with 2.25 per cent interest and they can raise Rs 50,000 crore without hedge with two per cent interest.
He further said that his ministry was working on a number of waterway projects for improving inland connectivity within big metros like Mumbai, as well as for inter-city connectivity. The minister added that, he received a good response from the global investors for an array of infrastructure projects including water sports and skiing, during his recent visit to Davos in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
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